American Car enthusiasts & Dating experts

[Grunge]

This photo clearly shows my Great Aunt Emma (in the back seat). I think it's about 1920 based on a passport application photo I have of her taken in 1922 shortly after her husband Daniel Grundy died (in 1921). The two images of her are very similar hence my guess at the year. 
She was born in 1860, so that would makes her about 60 and if it is 1920, then the gentleman in the drivers seat may well be my Great Uncle Daniel! If it's 1920, before he died then he'd be 66. Does he look that age to you? Otherwise it could be his eldest son at age 36?
Does anyone recognise the car? Make / year / model?

[Sapling]

Greetings Grunge!

A fine photo you have here.

I can't be too accurate with the date of the photo, but the car looks like a Chevrolet Series 490 - so called because it was originally sold for $490). These were built between 1915 and 1922. A couple of details don't look right for that car though - the front suspension on your car has prominent leaf springs which most images I can find of a Chevrolet 490 don't have, the badge is the wrong shape and there is no badge/mascot/thermometer on the top of the radiator. Pretty much every other detail seems to be right though.

It's possible that it's an older car that has been modified over time, or one that has had customisation work from new.

[Grunge]

Greetings Grunge!

A fine photo you have here.

I can't be too accurate with the date of the photo, but the car looks like a Chevrolet Series 490 - so called because it was originally sold for $490). These were built between 1915 and 1922. A couple of details don't look right for that car though - the front suspension on your car has prominent leaf springs which most images I can find of a Chevrolet 490 don't have, the badge is the wrong shape and there is no badge/mascot/thermometer on the top of the radiator. Pretty much every other detail seems to be right though.

It's possible that it's an older car that has been modified over time, or one that has had customisation work from new.

Thanks Sapling!
Having received your response I've quickly checked online and believe you are daed right. It look like the head lights are now actually attached directly to the modified front springs! That could be a change Daniel made. He was a tin & copper plate engraver by trade but his father and at least one brother in England had been wheelwrights & Iron Turners so it might have been something he could do himself.
At least the age seems to be right ... perhaps it's an early model that he had an accident with and chose to repair? The one photo is taken in front of their house in Bloomfield, NJ, and I assume the other is in NJ as well ... that looks like a long covered bridge in the background? I wonder if anyone would recognise the location?
Thanks again,
G
     

[Erin2012]

I am going to keep looking, but is that really a covered bridge for cars or is it for trains? To the left of the beginning of the bridge, it looks like there is a lot of light where the "road" should be.

Does anyone else see that?